Plane shift can drop you up to five hundred miles from your intended destination.
This time they land in some woods, at sunset, near a remarkably flat and smooth path that looks like a lava flow or something.
Plane shift can drop you up to five hundred miles from your intended destination.
This time they land in some woods, at sunset, near a remarkably flat and smooth path that looks like a lava flow or something.
They leave the IHOP and stand at the edge of the street watching cars.
"It seems like it'd be tragic living in this society unable to afford one."
"I'm going to put it on the list of questions to ask. How much is a car, how much is the use of a car."
"Until shown how to do so safely. So we can just ask someone."
He waits until there's a man going by alone. "Excuse me? Can you show us how to safely cross the street?"
The man looks at them and looks at their armor and frowns and - "Uh, you look both ways first to make sure there aren't any cars."
"It does kind of seem like it'd be that straightforward though. Like, they can't hit you if there aren't any on the road."
"Yeah, see, I think we should go for it."
They wait until there are not any cars coming in either direction. They madly dash across the street.
The street they're crossing is really larger than the ones you're supposed to cross this way. In any case, they don't get hit. They do get some concerned stares.
The grocery store is a kind of enormous building with rows and rows of shelves. Most of the shelves have boxes on them with text, but a lot of the boxes also have pictures - this is cereal, this is tea - and the produce area is straightforward enough. There's also a frozen foods isle with pizzas and corn dogs and TV dinners and ice cream.
There are cashiers at the front, lots of other people putting things in wheeled carts, and the occasional person putting boxes on the shelves and wearing the same uniform as the cashiers.
Other people mostly fill their carts with things, then go up to the front and hand over cash or slide little plastic cards into machines.